Beyond the Two-State Solution

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For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, withwide international support, to implement the two-state solution:Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line -that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements thatdefined Israel's borders until 1967, before Israel occupiedthe West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War. By going back toIsrael's pre-1967 borders, many people hope to restore Israelto what they imagine was its pristine, pre-occupation character andto provide a solid basis for a long-term solution to theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict. In this original and controversial essay, Yehouda Shenhav arguesthat this vision is an illusion that ignores historical realitiesand offers no long-term solution. It fails to see that the realproblem is that a state was created in most of Palestine in 1948 inwhich Jews are the privileged ethnic group, at the expense of thePalestinians - who also must live under a constant state ofemergency. The issue will not be resolved by the two-statesolution, which will do little for the millions of Palestinianrefugees and will also require the uprooting of hundreds ofthousands of Jews living across the Green Line. All these obstaclesrequire a bolder rethinking of the issues: the Green Line should beabandoned and a new type of polity created on the completeterritory of mandatory Palestine, with a new set of constitutionalarrangements that address the rights of both Palestinians and Jews,including the settlers.

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Yehouda Shenhav

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"America's renewed push to save the two-state solution is goingnowhere fast. We need a new paradigm - and Shenhav's analysisis one of the best places we can start. It has profoundimplications for how we think of solving the Israel/Palestineconflict." Mondoweiss "Poses interesting historical insights and assessments ofpresent-day Israel." Morning Star "Offers a meaningful critique to the ideology that the state hasbecome undemocratic only because of the Six Day War." Jerusalem Post "Finding it timely and noteworthy for its original insights intoIsraeli society, Palestinians in Ramallah promptly translated intoArabic this political commentary on the precarious state in whichIsrael finds itself. This updated version now appearing in Englishpromises to further widen the circle of those who are beginning torealize that relevant political paradigms have undergone radicalchange, that a classical two-state solution to the conflict is afantasy (and perhaps always has been), and that new realitiesrequire new ideas. This work certainly belongs to a new genre ofwriting on the conflict." Sari Nuseibeh, Al-Quds University "Yehouda Shenhav makes an unusual and unsettling argument ... whatappears on its face a 'progressive' position on the question ofIsrael and Palestine, is in fact censorial and duplicitous. TheIsraeli left's sanctimonious insistence in the face of the Jewishsettlers of the West Bank that the settlements were illegal andthat the proper borders of Israel are those of 1967, is nothingshort of an ideological manoeuver. The purpose of the manoeuver isto obfuscate the fact that Israel itself is nothing short of a hugesettlement project that was founded upon the displacement ofhundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the systematicexpropriation of the land they left behind." Lama Abu Odeh, from the forewordNormal0 false false false EN-GB ZH-CN TH MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 'Finding it timely and noteworthy for its original insights intoIsraeli society, Palestinians in Ramallah promptly translated intoArabic this political commentary on the precarious state in whichIsrael finds itself. This updated version now appearingin English promises further to widen the circle of those who arebeginning to realize that relevant political paradigms haveundergone radical change, that a classical two-state solution tothe conflict is a fantasy (and perhaps always has been), and thatnew realities require new ideas. This work certainly belongs to anew genre of writing on the conflict.' Sari Nuseibeh, Al-Quds University 'Yehouda Shenhav makes an unusual and unsettling argument...:what appears on its face a 'progressive' position onthe question of Israel and Palestine, is in fact censorial andduplicitous. The Israeli left's sanctimonious insistence inthe face of the Jewish settlers of the West Bank that thesettlements were illegal and that the proper borders of Israel arethose of 1967, is nothing short of an ideological maneuver. Thepurpose of the maneuver is to obfuscate the fact that Israel itselfis nothing short of a huge settlement project that was founded uponthe displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and thesystematic expropriation of the land they left behind.' Lama Abu Odeh, from the Foreword
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